The European Commission has selected 78 SMEs from 18 countries to each receive a grant of up to €2.5 million (€5 million for health projects) to finance innovation activities and the development of their business plans.

The Commission received 580 project proposals involving 785 SMEs by the first cut-off date of Horizon 2020’s SME Instrument programme Phase 2 (9 October 2014). Evaluation by independent experts showed that 132 of the proposals met the evaluation standard. 60 (45.45%) have been selected for funding.

UK companies have been particularly successful in this call, with 10 participants on track to receive over €17 million. They are closely followed by France, the Netherlands and Spain, which actually has the biggest number of single beneficiaries (12).

In addition to the INSIST project already granted by the European Commission, ADINVEST International prepares 3 more projects to support its European deployment and to always propose newly updated mentoring approaches and solutions to SMEs/SMIs, Investors and Development actors.

Participation to the MIDINVEST 2014 fair, 12-13 November 2014: ADINVEST International participates to the Investors Village, and organises a workshop about "How ro teinforce your access to investors". ADINVEST International representatives are available for private appointments durign the whole event. More info on the fair: www.midinvest.fr

The international non-profit organisation ADINVEST Europe (aisbl) has been created with the support of ADINVEST International founders. Its headquarters opened in Brussels in Novembre 2014 with the objective to federate private investors, highly interested in supporting European VSE / SME / SMIs presenting qualified development potential by the ADINVEST network.

the kick-off meeting of the INSIST project, coordinated by the Budapest Business School, took place in Brussels on 27-28 October 2014. The INSIST project aims at sustainable European VSE / SME / SMIs. The objectives of INSIST is to develop and deploy training offers to suport executive managers of those enterprises to face new challanges and business transmissions, thanks to the experience across several EU countries (Hungary, United Kingdomi, Belgium, Poland and France). ADINVEST International manages the development of the training offer dedicated to Mentors of European VSE/SME/SMIs managers.